Author: Dr. Pawan Gupta

Dr. Pawan Gupta is a trusted Senior Surgical Oncologist, social activist, and author, engaged in creating awareness and changing the way cancer is perceived in society. He is a renowned transformational speaker on cancer chronic diseases and lifestyle specifically tobacco. Thousands have benefitted from his workshops, seminars, camps, and training programs. He has been featured in Buzz Creator and on many channels on TV. He is the Founder of ICanCaRe, an Innovative enterprise for Cancer Care and Rehabilitation. Working extensively in Tobacco Cessation data-driven protocol-based intervention through a network of Specialists and experts on ICanCaRe APP, Virtual Clinics, and ICanCaRe National Quitline. National Convenor for Tobacco Cessation courses for the first time in India introduced under Gujarat University His populist campaigns “WIN OVER CANCER”, “SAVE the Youth – Win over tobacco”, “Chota Daana”, “Catch them Early”, and “My Hygiene My Responsibility” has gained him wide accolades. In his mission to win over cancer, he has a unique methodological approach to quitting tobacco. The book WIN OVER TOBACCO – MADE EASY is a step-by-step guide for tobacco addicts to overcome their cravings. The Book had more than 10000 Downloads within 30 Days of being made available. He received the prestigious ICD International Award in 2007, Vivekananda Sister Margarette Award 2017 and Delhi NGO leadership Award 2017, AIECS award 2018, Asia Africa Leadership in Social Innovation 2019, MICC Innovation Award 2019, Rashtriya Prabasi Odia Paribar Award 2019. Professionally he has conducted more than 11000 cancer surgeries and was a pioneer in establishing and modernizing surgical oncology in some of the major hospitals in Delhi NCR. He did his graduation and post-graduation from SCB Medical College, Cuttack. He enhanced his surgical skills M.Ch and Fellowship in Surgical Oncology from Gujarat Cancer Research Institute (GCRI), Ahmedabad. He has held several positions during his career in various hospitals. Dr. Pawan has published 30 papers in National and International journals and is actively involved in several research projects. He is an active member of the Telemedicine Society of India, India Association of Surgical Oncology, Association of Surgeons of India, and Foundation for Head and Neck Oncology. He is seen as a mentor of strayed souls, and a soothing balm to those tormented by cancer.

11 Co-morbid Conditions Associated with Tobacco Use

Opportunity to quit your habit of tobacco !

Co-Morbidity Conditions due to Tobacco Use

“In medicine, comorbidity is the presence of one or more additional diseases or disorders co-occurring with (that is, concomitant or concurrent with) a primary disease or disorder; in the countable sense of the term, a comorbidity is each additional disorder or disease. The additional disorder may also be a behavioural or mental disorder. (Wikipedia, accessed on 10-Feb-2019).

In most of the tobacco users, some comorbid conditions exist and patients visit a general physician to get its cure. These comorbid diseases are amplified due to tobacco use. Neither the doctor nor the patient takes care to get rid of the root cause of the problem – TOBACCO! This is an opportunity for you to quit tobacco.

Check if you are experiencing conditions as mentioned below after you started consuming tobacco. Along with curing the comorbidity, one should try to get rid of tobacco to permanently control the problem; the added benefit – you become healthier and wealthier!

Asthama
  1. Diabetes
  2. Periodontitis or gum disease
  3. Tuberculosis
  4. Asthma  – causing breathlessness and acute attacks
  5. Impaired vision due to increased intraocular pressure
  6. High Blood Pressure
  7. Cataracts – opacity of lens of the eye
  8. Osteoporosis – thinning of the bone
  9. Peptic ulcer disease
  10. Loss of tooth and poor gums
  11. Behavioural or mental disorder
Mental Disorder

Note should be made that when you quit tobacco the above conditions are likely to improve and require adjustment of treatment.

Recognizing the early signs and late signs of harms of tobacco use and taking action can save your life; make your family happy; and save you from the complications of tobacco use which is an irreparable damage.

A Request to all My Medical Colleagues – Please do ask tobacco history whenever a patient visits your clinic for any of the medical conditions.

A Request to all Friends – Anyone who has any of the above medical problems you should let your doctor know of your tobacco use. Ask to be counselled to quit tobacco.

ICanCaRe App

Download the app for more assistance here: Google Play Store

This app will help you explore more on tobacco and yourself by telling you your addiction level, type of addiction, your willpower index, expenditures, finding a doctor for help, self-assessment, and much more!

Whenever you decide to quit, you can visit us at Tobacco Wellness Centre, Sector – 30, Noida Medical Centre, Noida and seek counselling from our cessation expert to win over tobacco.

I’m sure this blog will enlighten you and will help you realize faster the need to quit and adapt to a being a more healthy individual.

Let us spread the message that staying healthy is possible. Let’s all adopt MED and abort using MEDICINE.

10 Advanced Complications due to Tobacco Use

Best part is recognizing the early signs of harms of tobacco and quitting right away! If these early signs are missed, at least one should not oversee the late signs of tobacco harms and should quit in this stage. They are the warning signals to stop – either refrain from in-taking tobacco or bear the fatal consequences!

But it is really pathetic that patients visit the doctor when complications of tobacco use are very much evident and make the patient sick. In the third stage of tobacco use, it is too late and the diseases have started to occur in the body. There are many fatal problems experienced where seeing a specialist becomes compulsory! Treatment of the complications takes the priority. Quitting at this stage will help and will take longer time but the damage is already done!

In this stage, the patient will have developed serious illness of one or the other forms given below. They will need both a specialist and cessation expert to cure their disease and to help them quit their habit of tobacco respectively. At this stage the patient will lose their finances at a very heavy and rapid rate that could have been saved had they quit in time! These diseases are:

Advanced Complication
Advanced Complication
  1. Heart attack
  2. Cancer of colorectal, liver, lung, bladder, cervix, oesophagus, kidney, larynx, pancreas, stomach, oral, and pharynx; acute myeloid leukaemia
  3. Oral Lesions
  4. Cardio Vascular Diseases
  5. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
  6. Eye Diseases
  7. Rheumatoid Arthritis
  8. Bone Fractures and lower bone density
  9. Chronic kidney diseases
  10. Peripheral Vascular Diseases – Bergers disease

Most of the people in India repent for not quitting early only when met with life threatening diseases. With this blogs, I intent to spread this word that self-awareness and detection at the right time will help the tobacco user to seek expert’s help immediately so that the losses are not heavy in the future. The finances can be saved, the life expectancy can improve; one can enjoy more with their family and children and of course have a better healthy life!

One should take care of their health and always advice the younger generation “TO BE SMART AND DO NOT START”. Quitting at the nascent stage will not cause devastating and heavy harms as it does in the later stages.

ICanCaRe App

Let us pledge to quit tobacco before any complications arise.

If you are a tobacco user who wants to seek assistance and help to quit, download the app here: Google Play Store

This app will help you explore more on tobacco and yourself by telling you your addiction level, type of addiction, your willpower index, expenditures, finding a doctor for help, self-assessment, and much more!

Whenever you decide to quit, you can visit us at Tobacco Wellness Centre, Sector – 30, Noida Medical Centre, Noida and seek counselling from our cessation expert to win over tobacco.

The best way to stay healthy is adopting MED and aborting use of MEDICINES.

19 Late Signs of Harms due to Tobacco Use

How and when should you recognize that you must quit your habit of tobacco?

In my last blog, I had enumerated 27 signs to recognize early subtle changes in our body while taking tobacco. Unfortunately most goes underestimated and unnoticed because enjoying the smoke/tobacco is the priority. We are not aware about these changes until someone points it to us. In this blog I will talk about what is in store if you continue to smoke. Recognize them as early as you can and it may still not be too late to quit tobacco now.

In the second stage of your tobacco use, your consumption will increase sufficiently to cause you more cravings than usual and you will find that you are depleting your financial resources faster than before. This is the beginning of addiction and second hint to quit tobacco or else it will lead to severe and fatal health conditions.

How do you then know if you are addicted and need immediate expert’s help?

Increased Cravings
  1. Increased cravings; requiring more tobacco for satisfaction
  2. Tobacco consumption in routine habits like driving, eating meals, watching TV, etc.
  3. Decreased concentration
  4. unable to control cravings beyond 2 hours; experiencing withdrawal symptoms like panic attacks, depression, trouble in sleeping, increased appetite and weight gain
  5. Infection in lungs leading to severe breathing problems/asthma
  6. Influenza
  7. Infertility
  8. Stains on fingers
  9. Symptoms of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease
  10. Bronchitis
  11. Constricted blood vessels
  12. Blood clotting
bronchitis

For Women specially:

  1. Infertility
  2. Miscarriages
  3. Neural tube defects
  4. Lower infant birth weight
  5. SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
  6. Early menopause
  7. Irregular periods

This is the time when you must seriously visit a cessation expert to help you get over your habit of tobacco. You will need both medication and counselling to get de-addicted from tobacco. If you delay in this stage to quit, then the consequences will be very fatal and you might develop severe diseases like COPD, Oral cancer and more!

It is better to adopt MED not Medicine.

Spread the message. Let your friends also be tobacco free.

ICanCaRe App

QUIT TOBACCO NOW!

In the next blog we would talk about the advanced complications due to tobacco consumption.

In case you would like to know further about the signs and damages caused due to tobacco use, download our app on Google Play Store

It has lot many details that can help you understand the impact of tobacco, understanding your addiction level, type of addiction, your willpower index to quit, your expenditures, etc. You can explore more details and use it to also seek assistance for quitting. Download the app, register, take pledge to stay away from tobacco and refer to all your friends to create awareness and help them.

Whenever you decide to quit, you can visit us at Tobacco Wellness Centre, Sector – 30, Noida Medical Centre, Noida and seek counselling from our cessation expert to win over tobacco.